England star Saka urges social media platforms to do better

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In a post on his official Twitter account on Thursday, the teenager wrote: “To
the social media platforms Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, I don’t want any
child or adult to have to receive the hateful and hurtful messages that me,
Marcus and Jadon have received this week.

“I knew instantly the kind of hate that I was about to receive, and that is a
sad reality that your powerful platforms are not doing enough to stop these
messages.

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get them telt son

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Not the woke left and consequence-free speech advocates, trying to cancel people off social media?

Well...

Good for him…

not nice having ago at a 19-year-old kid

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sure

I hope they take the sickening reactions from British football fans this year into account when they are deciding whether or not the UK should host the World Cup in 2030. I have never been so ashamed and disappointed.

I too hope they take into account our diversity, our passionate support, our teams anti-racism stance and the huge shows of support to Marcus Rashford et al when they are deciding who should host the World Cup

oh

British football fans?

Do enlighten us specifically what you mean?

Specifically Wales, Scotland and NI

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Seems like a very carefully trodden path of words there, mate.

Passionate support separate from the reason Rashford needed support at all? Our diversity is such a big factor, that they got booed before every match for attempting to strengthen that diversity?

The teams anti-racist stance.

Indeed.

Unlike the misguided Players a major study has proven the UK is the least racist nation on God's earth

The GBP should rightly be appluaded. No wonder economic migrants love this nation

I don't want to speak for MTVN, but you purposefully criticised something he praised about the team, and then said "indeed" as though you agreed with him.

I think overall we should certainly be proud of our teams diversity and that of our nation which goes beyond almost every other country in Europe

That's not to say we are above criticism and in general I try and shy away from lecturing or belittling other countries for their issues with racism because I know the UK has it too and its hypocritical to pretend otherwise. But the England football team is overwhelmingly a positive force in fighting racism and so are most of its backers. To suggest it should count against our World Cup bid when you see which other countries have hosted the last few major tournaments is surely pretty out of touch

That's fairer. I completely agree about the actual team, and even venturing off into further issues like Henderson (and I think a couple of others did too) wearing rainbow laces, which in a male dominated and historically homophonic sport like footie is still a risk, but having the confidence in a tolerant group of young people around you sort of takes away the fear.

Of course we should be proud but the team has been diverse for almost 40years yet the black players are still being racially abused by the fans who claim to support them. I dont think there is much to be proud of in that TBH.

Kane wore a rainbow armband against Germany, we shouldn’t punish the team or indeed the decent fans for a small minority of twats

The team failed, nothing to be proud of. Done by Italians who wanted it more with a better manager who ilt more. The aim was to win.

Stamping out racism is an ongoing thing and its a societal problem not just a football one but its something there has been a lot of progress in the last few decades hasn't there? Maybe its not for me to say but I've definitely noticed a shift in public attitudes just in my own lifetime and as depressing as the racism is I also don't think I've seen more anti-racism activism in any other country than I've seen in English football in the last twelve months